(Reuters) – Dozens of villagers thronged and cheered Russian President Vladimir Putin throughout an unannounced go to on Friday to a neighborhood close to Moscow the place he has ancestral ties.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov advised Russian media that Putin visited the village of Turginovo to see locations related together with his household.
Video posted by native information websites confirmed dozens of residents flocking the beaming president after he emerged from a automobile within the village sq. at nightfall.
“Good well being, energy and good luck,” one lady mentioned. “Thanks for coming to see us. For remembering us.”
Throughout a cease lasting just a few minutes, Putin expressed shock {that a} science trainer on the native faculty was endeavor a doctoral diploma and promised improved circumstances to draw certified individuals to the world.
Residents advised him they wanted extra and higher housing.
“Sure, sure, I agree, We’ll do all the things steadily,” Putin advised them in the course of the encounter lasting just a few minutes. “My finest needs on the beginning of the varsity yr.”
He was returning to Moscow after chatting with college students at a “administration lab” close to the capital on “Data Day”, Sept. 1, the normal begin of the varsity yr.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski; Modifying by Cynthia Osterman)